Remote software engineering, without another full-time hire.
Need an experienced engineer but not another employee? Sfera provides remote engineering capacity to companies worldwide: backend, APIs, integrations and the systems that keep a business running.
Part-time, full-time, per project or ongoing maintenance. Short intro call, then a written proposal.
What we can pick up for your team
Engineering capability first. The language is a detail we match to your codebase.
Backend and API development
Services and REST APIs designed to be read by the next engineer: clear boundaries, tests where they matter, and sensible database schemas.
Third-party integrations
Connecting your product to the services around it, with retries, idempotency and logging so failures are visible instead of silent.
Payments and e-invoicing
Payment gateway flows, reconciliation and tax e-invoicing, including Malaysia's LHDN MyInvois, built into the billing path rather than beside it.
Internal business systems
Admin panels, portals, dashboards and back-office workflows, with authentication, role-based access and multi-tenancy when you need them.
Existing-system maintenance
Taking over a codebase someone else wrote: getting it running locally, fixing what is on fire, upgrading frameworks and documenting what nobody wrote down.
Feature development
Working through your backlog inside your process: your tickets, your repository, your code review, your release cadence.
Pick the shape that fits
Start small if you want to see how we work. Scale up or down with notice.
Part-time engineering
A fixed number of days or hours each week, inside your team. Good for a steady backlog that does not justify a full-time hire.
Full-time remote contract
A dedicated engineer on your work, your standups and your tools, on a contract rather than payroll.
Project-based
A defined piece of work, such as an integration, a new service or a migration, with a written scope and a fixed quote.
Maintenance retainer
Updates, fixes, monitoring and small changes for a system already in production, so it does not rot between projects.
Usually one of these
If one sounds familiar, the first call will be short.
Three steps to the first commit
No long sales process.
Intro call
Your stack, your team, the work and the hours you need. We say early if it is not a good match.
Written proposal
Engagement model, rate or fixed quote, working hours overlap and how we communicate. NDA first if you need one.
Onboard and ship
Access to your repository and tools, a first small task to calibrate, then regular work against your backlog.
Questions before hiring remotely
The practical ones.
Which time zones do you work with?
We are in Malaysia (GMT+8), so working hours overlap fully with Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the rest of Asia-Pacific, and with European mornings. For other regions we agree a daily overlap window up front.
Do we have to use your stack?
No. We work in your repository, with your languages, frameworks and tooling. Our strongest backend work is in Go and PHP/Laravel with PostgreSQL or MySQL, and we will tell you honestly if your stack is outside what we do well.
Who owns the code?
You do. Work produced under the contract is yours, and it lives in your repository from day one.
How does communication work?
Whatever your team already uses: Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear, GitHub or GitLab. We join your standups if you have them and write things down if you do not.
How is it billed?
Capacity and maintenance engagements are invoiced monthly. Project work gets a fixed quote with milestone invoices. The details go in the written proposal before anything starts.
Can we start with something small?
Yes, and we recommend it. A short, well-defined first task is the quickest way for both sides to see whether the working relationship fits.
Tell us what your team needs.
A few lines is enough: your stack, the kind of work, and roughly how many hours a week. We reply within 24 hours with a time for an intro call, or an honest no if it is not a fit.